Database Administrator, Infrastructure - UK
Core
Senior technical owner for database reliability, security, and operational maturity of production database infrastructure for UK public safety customers.
Role type
Senior / Staff Database Administrator
Builds
Production database systems for UK public safety and police customers
Domain
Public safety / Law enforcement / Cloud infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
MySQL administration, cloud-hosted database platforms (AWS RDS/Azure), performance tuning, query optimization, replication, backup and recovery, high availability, infrastructure as code, automation, observability, incident management, security compliance
Preferred skills
Microservices architectures, distributed systems, SaaS platforms, public sector delivery, database migrations, SLO/SLA definition
Technologies
MySQL, AWS RDS, Aurora, Azure
Responsibilities
Own and improve reliability, performance, security, and scalability of production database systems; Lead monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery; Diagnose and resolve complex database performance and availability issues; Partner on schema design, indexing, query optimization, and change management; Lead technical planning for migrations, upgrades, and scaling; Improve infrastructure-as-code and automation; Define and maintain runbooks and operational standards; Lead incident response and post-incident reviews; Mentor engineers and operational teams; Represent database reliability in architecture reviews
Seniority
Senior / Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship and technical direction